"Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil, live as God's slaves." (1 Peter 2:16)
This verse falls in a section on the way Christians should live in the midst of a society that doesn't live God's way. All of Peter's instruction in 1 Peter 2 & 3 is about how to live differently from the world around us.
As Christians, we get to live as free people. Jesus has freed us from all that once bound us up. We have been given a free gift of freedom.
But, we're cautioned here not to use it as an excuse to do whatever we want just because we're freed from those rules. The freedom we have from a long list of regulations doesn't mean we have an excuse to do evil.
Peter encourages us to take our freedom and use it to live under God's rules. We have the choice - that's why Peter calls this living as free people. It's not something we have to do. It's something we choose to do.
How are you choosing to live?
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